Booker Reed and Nancy Dent form an unlikely partnership and establish Book Dent, Private Detective Agency. Their first case is the biggest story of 1953, when the world's first millionaire, Rathdowne Fairweather dies and leaves all of the Fairweather inheritance to the first of his children who can follow the clues he left in his will and find the fortune. Each of Fairweather's daughters hire Booker Dent, Private Detective agency to find their money first and claim the inheritance. Booker and Nancy still haven't found the Fairweather fortune when the chase turns deadly. With their list of suspects and casualties growing, Booker Reed and Nancy Dent are racing against the clock to find the Fairweather fortune and a killer.